Re: port registration (was: Re: [VCARDDAV] Lars DISCUSS on draft-ietf-vcarddav-carddav)

[Alfred Hönes <ah at TR-Sys.de>]

At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:31:45 +0300, Lars Eggert wrote:

> On 2009-10-23, at 1:26, SM wrote:
>
>     draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports and
>     draft-gudmundsson-dns-srv-iana-registry are set on a collision course.
>
> True. I note that the first is an adopted IETF work item in TSVWG
> and the other one isn't.
>
> (Disclaimer: I'm an author of the first one.)
>
> Lars


The TSVWG Charter mentions this subject only in a milestone:

|  December 2009   Request publication of 'IANA Procedures for the
|                  Transport Protocol Port Number Space' as BCP RFC

This corresponds to the scope of the individual draft that had been
adopted by the group and that has been maintained in the wg -00 and
-01 revisions of the draft.  It was the recent -02 draft version
that grossly extended the scope after the authors had been asked
to delineate and coordinate with the DNS SRV IANA registry draft.

The "Transport Protocol Port Number Space" quoted above is different
from the "DNS SRV Service Prefix" name space, and as far as I can see,
guidelines for service discovery and the application and use of the
Nomain Name System (DNS) do not fall under the chartered scope of
TSVWG (see: http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/tsvwg-charter.html)
nor the Transport Area in general.

I therefore suggest that the scope of draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports
indeed be restricted to what it has been previously, in accordance
with the milestone in the TSVWG charter..


(Disclaimer: I'm co-author of draft-gudmundsson-dns-srv-iana-registry)

Kind regards,
  Alfred Hönes.

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